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Real-Time Control of Walking

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Marc D. Donner

    1. Thomas J. Watson Research Center, International Business Machines, USA

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Part of the book series: Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic (PCS, volume 7)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 1-4

  3. Machine and animal walking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Animal walking

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 7-16

    3. Other walking work

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 17-21

    4. SSA walking machine

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 23-36

    5. Walking program

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 37-50

  4. Programming for robotics and control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Inadequacies of existing control structures

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 53-64

    3. OWL language

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 65-86

  5. Results and conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Experimental results

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 89-98

    3. Discussion and conclusions

      • Marc D. Donner
      Pages 99-105

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 107-160
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I wonder whether Karel Capek imagined in 1923 that by his use of the Czech word for forced labor, rohota, to name the android creations of Mr. Rossum he was naming an important technology of his future. Perhaps it wasn't Capek's work directly, but rather its influence on Lang's movie Metropolis in 1926 that introduced the term to the popular consciousness. In the public mind ever since a robot has been a me­ chanical humanoid, tireless and somewhat sinister. In the research community the field of robotics has recently reached large size and respectability, but without answering the question, "What is robotics?" or perhaps, "What is a robot?" There is no real consensus for a precise definition of robotics. I suppose that Capekian mechanical men, if one could build them, are robots, but after that there is little agreement. Rather than try to enumerate all of the things that are and are not robots, I will try to characterize the kinds of features that make a system a robot. A candidate definition of a robot is a system intended to achieve mechanical action, with sensory feedback from the world to guide the actions and a sophisticated con­ trol system connecting the sensing and the actions.

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  • Thomas J. Watson Research Center, International Business Machines, USA

    Marc D. Donner

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